WHY AND HOWTO CONTRIBUTE TO EUROPEANA
1/8 – Europeana
Digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material are essential to highlight cultural and scientific heritage and to inspire the creation of new content. They help to democratise access to knowledge and to develop the information society.
Europeana is considered as one of the richest and authoritative sources of cultural information coming from European institutions. It is a portal that acts as an interface to millions books, journals, paintings, pictures, films, videos, audios, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe.
Endorsed by European Commission since 2005, Europeana’s aim is to accumulate digitised content, standardise the metadata that describes it, apply linked data techniques to enrich it and promote persistent identifiers to locate it in the long-term.
Connecting institutions to enlighten cultural heritage.
Promo on why and how to contribute to Europeana realised in winter 2012-2013 by the University of Padova Library System in the context of a lab focused on multimedia resources editing.
